The latest happenings from the UVM College of Agriculture and Life Sciences
The University of Vermont Extension Maple program and the Vermont Maple Sugar Makers’ Association (VMSMA) were co-hosts for the 2021 Vermont Maple Conference, held on December 8 to 11, 2021. The conference offered a mix of online and in-person learning with 15 informative sessions led by maple industry experts, maple producers and researchers including many from UVM. Continue reading “The 2021 Vermont Maple Conference”
For Vermont 4-H’ers enrolled in the dairy, beef and working steer projects, November 14 was a day filled with opportunities to explore several bovine-related topics in depth. Fifty-seven 4-H’ers from nine counties gathered at UVM’s Paul R. Miller Research and Educational Center in Burlington for the State 4-H Bovine Bonanza. They were split into groups, according to age, to learn about agricultural careers, calf health and nutrition, farm safety, milking parlors and tractor safety. Continue reading “4-H Groups Statewide Participate in Bovine Bonanza”
During the 2021 COP26 climate conference in Glasgow, Scotland, CDAE Professor Asim Zia, Rubenstein School Assistant Professor Bindu Panikkar, and Gund Graduate Fellow Rubaina Anjum participated in an international panel of scientists and experts from the Transboundary Water In-Cooperation Network (TWIN). The panel’s theme was Securing Clean Water in Transboundary Indus, Jordan, Mekong and Amazon Basins Through Science and Diplomacy, and they deliberated data sharing, polycentric governance, and the water crisis around these basins. Continue reading “The Transboundary Water In-Cooperation Network at COP26”
The annual 26th annual United Nations’ Conference of Parties (COP-26) in Glasgow, UK, has provided an opportunity for scholars, practitioners, activists, and policy-makers to gather together and catalyze new or dormant actions towards the goals of the Paris Agreement and the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change and University of Vermont researchers are there on the ground revolutionizing collaborations towards the sixth Sustainable Development Goal, among others, toward fresh water and sanitization.
With a wealth of available information, has anyone really connected the data dots in coffee? The State of Coffee Smallholder Platform is an open access data resource for coffee farmers and other actors along the coffee value chain. The purpose is to remove barriers from equitable information sharing, to help all value chain actors better assess socio-economic and environmental gaps, outcomes and trends. Continue reading “State of the Smallholder Coffee Farmer”